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We're doing some late Summer renovations at The Cult and one of the sections we would like to improve upon is our Book sections. We never had a great Quotes addition to each book section. Rather, I had to do outside links to other fan pages that had compiled their list of quotes. But many of these fan sites are no long gone, rendering the link defunct on our end.

So we need you to help us out! Everyone post their favorite LULLABY quotes in this thread as replies. After a week or so, we'll take all the quotes and compile them a new quotes sub-section for the respective master section.

“Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.”

“When you think about it from a native plant perspective,” Oyster says, “Johnny Appleseed was a fucking biological terrorist.”

"Outdoors, the din of traffic is bad enough. Adding Chopin's Piano Concerto in E Minor is not making the situation better. You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. "

"After listening to Oyster, a glass of milk isn't just a nice drink with chocolate chip cookies. It's cows forced to stay pregnant and pumped with hormones. It's the inevitable calves that live a few miserable months, squeezed into veal boxes. A pork chop means a pig, stabbed and bleeding, with a snare around one foot, being hung up to die screaming as it's sectioned into chops and roasts and lard. Even a hard-boiled egg is a hen with her feet crippled from living in a batter cage only four inches wide, so narrow she can't raise her wings, so maddening her beak is cut off so she won't attack the hens trapped on each side of her."

"Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead."

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don’t participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience.

All of their talent and intelligence and beauty, outlived by decorative junk

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them

People who believe in reincarnation are just postponing their lives

"When you think about it from a native plant perspective" Oyster says, "Johnny Appleseed, he says, Might as well be handing out smallpox"

"I couldn't stop killing," Bonin once told a reporter. "It got easier with each one ......"
I have to agree, It does get to be a bad habit

"The Green Menace," the newspapers call it. The Ivy equivalent of killer bees. The Ivy Inferno

All that pain and suffering wasted

According to Mona, you shouldn't kill people, because that drives you away from humanity. In order to justify killing, you have to make the victim your enemy. To justify any crime, you have to make the victim your enemy.
After long enough, everyone in the world will be your enemy.

And what if you can't forget it? She says. What if it stays in your head, repeating itself like one of those silly advertising songs? What if it's always there, like a loaded gun waiting for someone to annoy you?

Constructive Deconstruction

You ever wonder when gods coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Either a species learns to control it's own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies god dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that god flushed down the toilet

Every generation wants to be the last
Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand

That kind of thinking makes him an Adolf Hitler. A Joseph Stalin. A serial killer. A mass murderer

This quiet-ophobic. This talk-oholic

These rock-oholics. These quiet quiet-ophobics

My old way of life, everything I call home, smells of shit

All that work and love and effort and time, my life, wasted.
Everything I had hoped would outlive me I've ruined.

It's nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I've made of my life. Right or wrong, it follows no great master plan.
All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does.
Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Imagine your emotions, your loves and hates and rivalries and victories, played out again and again until life is nothing more than a melodramatic soap opera. Until you regard the birth and death of other people with no more emotion than the wilted cut flowers you throw away. I tell Helen, I think we're immortal already.

No matter what the future holds, ultimately it will be a disappointment

What I have left, maybe the only way to find freedom is by doing the things I don't want to. Stop Nash. Confess to the police. Accept my punishment.
I need to rebel against myself
It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

Imperfect and messy, this is the world I live in. This far from God, these are the people I'm left with. Everybody grabbing for power. Mona and Helen and Nash and Oyster. The only people who know me hate me. We all hate each other. We all fear each other. The whole world is my enemy.

"No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. we just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume.
we can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted.
we could turn it off anytime we wanted." chapter 3 page 18 line 14 true 18

This is exactly my opinion of my favorite quote in Lullaby. I was hoping someone had it posted and here it is. I think of this quote nearly everyday when I hear my neighbors television or watching my friends waste their life watching lame sitcoms. All of Chapter 3 should be in quotes. This is the reason I became a member of the cult.

This book is the perfect read for me.
I love at the start of the third chapter he says... " Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead."

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